This artwork represents a few significant aspects of Hy's life story. Due to an illness he had while very young. Hy's family was quarantined and his box of toys had to be burned. He also remembers being fascinated by the horses that pulled fire engines in his neighborhood. Later, as an adult, he and his wife founded a toy company named after their daughter Judy.

The second dimension of the life story cube is the continuum that ranges from the life story being totally private to being fully disclosed in a public format.